Construct of CC (Michael Canale & Merril Swain)
Grammatical Competence
: aspect of CC that encompasses “knowledge of lexical items and rules of morphology, syntax, sentence-grammar semantics, and phonology.”
Discourse Competence
: the ability we have to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.
→ Reflect the us
The Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
The first language system interferes with the second language system.
Structural analysis on the two language would enable teachers to predict the difficulties in acquiring second language.
It is quite common to detect where the speaker is from just by listening to his/her accent.
e.g.) French
Ladies and gentlemen
What is Student Course Evaluation?
Course evaluation
→a paper or electronic questionnaire, which requires a written or selected response answer to a series of questions in order to evaluate the instruction of a given course
→ the content and the strategy of the class
→ the attitude
→ the preparation
→ understanding of the students
→ assignment
→ classroom settings
To understand Mary’s problem, we combined the perspective of nature and history together. According to Gestalt Theory, human beings are a combined existence, and we can understand more fully by having an integrated view.
We understood Mary’s problem as a connected story.
Her childhood experience affected through her life time, which could be explained as “Unfinished Business”. Expe
1. Introduction
(1) Background imformation of Umpqua bank
Today, not only is Umpqua 13th on Fortune’s list of the Best Companies to Work For, it has also been voted the top bank in Portland for the last three years and is 5th in market shares alongside big players Wells Fargo and Bank of America. But back in 1994, when the bank was a mere six branches, CEO Ray Davis got all the managers to